•Wants payment of 25% revenue to federation account stopped

In a bid to bridge some of its infrastructural gap, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has asked to discontinue the 25 per cent revenue contribution it makes to the federation account.

The Managing Director of the agency, Captain Rabiu Yadudu, made the appeal yesterday when the Senate Committee on Aviation came for their oversight function and he said that if the 25 per cent contribution ends, it will ensure development if revenue generated from the sector is ploughed back.

This was even as he asserted that revenues from only two airports; the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) are sustaining other airports in the country.

He also highlighted the global economic challenge that has affected airline operators causing them to reduce fleet, frequencies or totally withdraw operations thereby affecting the agency’s revenue generation.

Captain Yadudu further decried the still rising operating and maintenance cost of the new terminals and existing ones due to inflation and the devaluation of the Naira but stressed that FAAN is tweaking its plans to make other airports that are not breaking even to perform. He also said the airport managers have embarked on an aggressive debt recovery drive while it has introduced a pay as you Go system and has also commenced cashless policy among other loophole blockage areas. Yadudu decried debt of airlines to FAAN where he said a particular airline owes N13 billion for services rendered and unpaid for.

“On the capacity and contribution of airports to revenue generation, it is the MMIA and Abuja that mainly supports other airports. The industry is still having infrastructural gap to stabilise, therefore, government’s support in stabilising the industry is needed. This can be achieved by suspending the contributions to the Federation Account in compliance with ICAO standards and recommended practices (SARPs) Doc 9562 on airport generation which provides that: Revenue generated by the airport should be transparently re-invested wholly in operating and developing airport facilities,” he said. Reacting to the FAAN boss’s call for exemption from contribution into the federation account, Chairman Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi, said the idea was commendable although it remains a constitutional issue requiring a review to actualise.

Etrusen:
Nigeria is a joke

all round na cruise we dey

Frontail:
... And the citizens are Jokers too !

Etrusen:



real matters

just imagine one politician coming to lure unsuspecting citizens with 5L of kerosene

its a big disgrace to Nigeria as a whole

Simplyleo:
I disagree with this Tinubu Ibadan express report.

We all know the most profitable airports the world over are the ones located in the online country.

Statistics available to me shows over 1356 landing and taking off occur there on daily basis.

Simplyleo:
I disagree with this Tinubu Ibadan express report.

We all know the most profitable airports the world over are the ones located in the online country.

Statistics available to me shows over 1356 landing and taking off occur there on daily basis.

BiafIntel:
Foolish people and foolish country. This is like saying only TinCan and Apapa ports are profitable when they literarily and deliberately blocked other ports from opening in the Eastern region. Yet, the so-called citizens will read trash like this and will never reason for themselves nor ask questions.

BiafIntel:
Foolish people and foolish country. This is like saying only TinCan and Apapa ports are profitable when they literarily and deliberately blocked other ports from opening in the Eastern region. Yet, the so-called citizens will read trash like this and will never reason for themselves nor ask questions.

osejie17:
Waiting for Chelsea match

EcoBrick:


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/only-lagos-abuja-airports-profitable-sustain-others-faan/